Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^-]*-){2}

{2}repeats the group contents below exactly 2 times:

Negated Character Class[^-]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

\s*a Unicode whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1([^-]+)

Negated Character Class[^-]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?:[^-]*-){2}\s*([^-]+)

New

FA0003 -BL- FA0005-BL
FA0004 -BL- FA0008-BL

FA0003 -BL- FA0005-BL
FA0004 -BL- FA0008-BL